It's weird to remember there was a time you could get sued for adapting Dracula.

Pacing on early movies is so astoundingly different than modern movies.
I never know how much of it is a difference in interests a century ago and
how much was cimena actually being a new and largely unsolved artform.
For instance, you'd think a movie without any speaking would have fewer
long shots of people just talking to eachother.

Regardless, I went into this more with a feeling of obligation than an
expectation of actually enjoying it. This was about right. I think the cuts
they made to the Dracula story helped it, but it was still pretty long and
slow.

That said, I'm glad I watched it. There were some genuinely great shots
(e.g., a lot of what they did with shadows), Orlok was fairly creepy
looking, and it is a classic.